Arkitus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 I'm working on a project right now which is redoing the argonian and khajiit races. I'm not sure what i plan on turning the khajiit into, but i had the idea of making them look like bengal tigers or something. However argonians seem to be a lizard race and i have never once in my life seen a orange lizard. So i redid the argonians to look like the lizards down here where i live. It's still a W.I.P which is why the eyes are black so bare with me here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frakle Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 I'm working on a project right now which is redoing the argonian and khajiit races. I'm not sure what i plan on turning the khajiit into, but i had the idea of making them look like bengal tigers or something. However argonians seem to be a lizard race and i have never once in my life seen a orange lizard. So i redid the argonians to look like the lizards down here where i live. It's still a W.I.P which is why the eyes are black so bare with me here. Looking good mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amycus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Looks good as far as I see it. I would like a bit of a close up before I say which one looks better though. I just wanted to say that the textures on the arms look really nice, but the part on his chest is a bit TOO green, and stands in contrast to the rest. Maybe you can try and make the chest a bit closer to the color surrounding it? And of course, you should probably wait to change anything until you have heard what others have to say in case they don't agree with me at all. :yes: ... Anyone?! :dry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitus Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Looks good as far as I see it. I would like a bit of a close up before I say which one looks better though. I just wanted to say that the textures on the arms look really nice, but the part on his chest is a bit TOO green, and stands in contrast to the rest. Maybe you can try and make the chest a bit closer to the color surrounding it? And of course, you should probably wait to change anything until you have heard what others have to say in case they don't agree with me at all. :yes: ... Anyone?! :dry: I'm still working on it ofc but the reason the chest stands out is because the arms, legs, head and tail have black mixed in with them. But the chest has all the black on the back, which is how the default one was as well to some point and i will work on it but i can't guarantee that it'll change to much. But i didn't get a close up due to the eyes being black, once i work on it some more i will post screens of before and after. Main reason i am doing this is that i am sick of the orange argonians lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amycus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) I'm still working on it ofc but the reason the chest stands out is because the arms, legs, head and tail have black mixed in with them. But the chest has all the black on the back, which is how the default one was as well to some point and i will work on it but i can't guarantee that it'll change to much. But i didn't get a close up due to the eyes being black, once i work on it some more i will post screens of before and after. Main reason i am doing this is that i am sick of the orange argonians lol. Pretty much ANY mod is born because of a modder getting irritated on something :tongue: And I understand your reasoning for letting the chest being of a lighter color. Still, it does look a bit too "clean". You are of course the boss of your own mod, just saying that I would like to mix in a few more shades of green on the chest. but that's just me. Ah well, enough rambling from me :hurr: Edited July 16, 2011 by amycus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitus Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Oh i know which is the main reason i have made a HUD mod and EYE Re-texture mods. Due to the old ones being bland and boring imo. Same reason i am redoing the Argonian and Khajiit races. I had a nice green eye texture for the argonian but i don't know if i will use it seeing as how his skin is green i might use blue or something for the eyes. I'm indeed going to try to darken the chest, maybe put some black on it or something. I could always texture him to look like godzilla? :O Lmao J/k. But i will post pictures as it comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amycus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) Oh i know which is the main reason i have made a HUD mod and EYE Re-texture mods. Due to the old ones being bland and boring imo. Same reason i am redoing the Argonian and Khajiit races. I had a nice green eye texture for the argonian but i don't know if i will use it seeing as how his skin is green i might use blue or something for the eyes. I'm indeed going to try to darken the chest, maybe put some black on it or something. I could always texture him to look like godzilla? :O Lmao J/k. But i will post pictures as it comes along. How about red/brown eyes? though blue might actually work. Blue eyes isn't very unique, but I can't remember ever seing any blue reptile/cat eyes before... EDIT: I answer here since the following is kinda off-topic: OMG, THERE ARE BLUE EYED CATS? :ohmy: All I have seen have had brown-green eyes. Maybe I should go out more often.... Not that there are that many cats here anyways... Excuse me while I bury myself in a hole of shame... :ermm: Edited July 16, 2011 by amycus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitus Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 You've never seen blue cat eyes? :O Get a Siamese cat and you will. :P But as for the eyes go, i plan on putting a eye pack in with this once i release it, so people can choose what eye colors they'd like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) You might want to have a browse on the "Proper" Khajiit and Argonian Bodyshapes/Animations thread too - while not specifically changing the main textures, we ARE changing the foot meshes and so a set of your textures to suit what we are doing would be very relevant. Remember also that to maximise downloads you need to support several different male and female body replacers, with options to suit each. Having a range of Argonian body colours would be nice, certainly, and green skin ifs very traditionally lizard-like, but think about what range of colours you'd get with the colour changers on the RaceSelect menu - make sure that you can still get a range from the yellows and oranges of some desert lizards through to the bright colours of some tropical ones- after all, there are anvironments of most types across Cyrodiil and the argonians should reflect that. As for the Khajiit - the more "big cat" variants the better. The Skyrim trailer shors a much more tiger-like one, so maybe that would be a good choice. Head mesh may need some work though. Edited July 16, 2011 by MarkInMKUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitus Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) You might want to have a browse on the "Proper" Khajiit and Argonian Bodyshapes/Animations thread too - while not specifically changing the main textures, we ARE changing the foot meshes and so a set of your textures to suit what we are doing would be very relevant. Remember also that to maximise downloads you need to support several different male and female body replacers, with options to suit each. Having a range of Argonian body colours would be nice, certainly, and green skin ifs very traditionally lizard-like, but think about what range of colours you'd get with the colour changers on the RaceSelect menu - make sure that you can still get a range from the yellows and oranges of some desert lizards through to the bright colours of some tropical ones- after all, there are anvironments of most types across Cyrodiil and the argonians should reflect that. As for the Khajiit - the more "big cat" variants the better. The Skyrim trailer shors a much more tiger-like one, so maybe that would be a good choice. Head mesh may need some work though. For one i do agree that having a good selection of skins is a must in a game and that is something Bestheda seemed to forget when making the beast races in oblivion. Which is the main reason i am doing this, i will probably make a red, yellow or so on version in the near future once my game stops acting up. Until then the green one i have released is in my opinion better then the default one. For the body replacers, i do not make my mods to fit something i don't use. Seeing how i don't use the body replacers, i won't install them to make this compatible. But the owners of those said mods have 100% permission from me to alter the textures in order to be compatible with their mod and upload it or send it to me and i will upload it. As long as they give proper credit i do not mind. Modding a game like this is a community effort in cases like this. For the Khajiit and big cats, i don't do meshes. Just textures, i can't seem to grasp gmax or blender, otherwise i'd be pumping out a lot more then i am. Armors/Ect. I've used zmod pretty much since i ever started modding, unfortunately there is no existing .nif plugin for it to my knowledge. Edited July 16, 2011 by izJasonHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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